Reading in General
Approaches
Assessment
Word Identification
Beginning Literacy
100
The most important variable in the teaching of reading
What is the teacher
100
a belief that word recognition should come first before comprehension
What is bottom up instruction
100
the typpe of assessment teachers use every day in their classrooms
What is informal assessment
100
the phase that occurs before the development of alphabetic knowledge
What is the prealphabetic phase
100
the belief that children should be exposed to print as early as possible
What is emergent literacy
200
The background knowledge students bring to the classroom
What is schemata
200
Whoe Language is an example of this
What is top down instruction
200
IRI
What is Individual Reading Inventory
200
the part of the word before the vowel
What is the onset
200
the teacher and students create a text together
What is interactive writing
300
thinking about thinking
What is metacognition
300
a reading lesson or story with a snmall group of students during a specified time in a regular location
What is the basal reading approach
300
a collection of a student's work for the purpose of assessment
What is a portfolio
300
the percent of time per day that should be spent on phonics instruction
What is 25%
300
an account told by a child and printed by another person
What is a language experience story
400
information provided by the grammatical relationships within sentence patterns
What is syntactic information
400
teachers encourage their students to select their own books
What is literature based instruction
400
percentile
What is the score in terms of the percentage of a group a student has scored above
400
A passage with words omitted
What is a cloze passage
400
the minimal sound unit that can be expressed in written language
What is a phoneme
500
The print itself provides information that the marks on the page represent sounds
What is graphophonemic system
500
a strategy meant to support the development of children's literacy skills and strategies
What is instructional scaffolding
500
the most important characteristic of a test
What is validity
500
two consonants that combine to make a new sound
What is a consonant digraph
500
dividing words into different parts
What is segmenting
M
e
n
u